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www.tampabay.com Farmers Insurance is leaving Florida in latest blow to homeowners

The decision was “necessary to effectively manage risk exposure,” the company said.

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floridapolitics.com State University System, Ray Rodrigues effectively stops Florida Atlantic University presidential search

A candidate questionnaire asked applicants about their gender identity, a potential EEOC violation.

“At least one candidate reported he was requested to complete a questionnaire and answer if his sexual orientation was ‘queer’ and whether he was a ‘male or transgender male,’” Rodrigues states in his letter. “In a separate and required survey, the same candidate was subsequently asked if his gender was ‘male, female or other’ and what his ‘preferred pronouns were.’”

Rodrigues said such questions appear to violate U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulations forbidding questions about job applicants’ sex, sexual orientation or gender.

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The future of The Palm Beach Post

www.powerpoll.com The future of The Palm Beach Post

On June 5, reporters at The Palm Beach Post joined two dozen other local newspapers across the U.S. in a one-day strike to demand an end to painful cost-cutting measures and a change of leadership at their parent company Gannett, the country’s biggest newspaper chain.

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Petition: Defederate from exploding-heads.com
  • Realistically, whoever is the admin of the instance can decide to block another instance for any reason, or no reason at all. Admins of threadiverse sites are maintaining (and owning) these instances as a hobby. If they decide they don't want to look at content about penguins during their leisure time, they can just ... block them.

    Since threadiverse is a bit less mature than the mastodon ecosystem, there aren't any "big" democratically owned and managed instances, so most people are stuck with benevolent dictator for life situations.

    Edit: Also, if an admin doesn't want penguin content stored on their servers (which they pay for), it's a bit strange to say they must store content they don't like on what is essentially their personal machine.

  • Eating the bugs?
  • For me the exciting part about bug farming isn't really their use as food (for humans or animals) but more their potential to eat "real" waste (like things that birds and mammals shouldn't eat) and then be turned into non-food items - like chondroitin or have other derivatives made out of their chitin.

    Right now it's not very efficient but with some selective breeding (or faster, GMO mealworm gut bacteria) they could start working on the landfill issue. Their poop would have to be incinerated since it would concentrate flame retardants and other toxins, but we might be able to get something useful out of them.

    edit: i have a box of mealworms that I wanted to try feeding just styrofoam to to see how many generations it would take to have mealworms that thrive (not just survive and turn to cannibalism) on the stuff, but i felt bad, now they eat kitchen waste and shredded paper.

  • Eating the bugs?
  • I think the "magic" of bugs is that they can eat things that would be inedible or unhealthy for other omnivores (like pigs). If we can convert some of our food and paper waste into protein and chitin, it might be worth the investment.

  • Florida News @kbin.social activepeople @kbin.social
    www.wlrn.org Miami's mango trade: Swap your excess fruit for bread

    Zak the Baker in Wynwood is offering a trade for anyone who has excess fruit in their backyard. Customers can exchange mangos for bread.

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    Florida News @kbin.social activepeople @kbin.social
    www.sun-sentinel.com Moody wants Florida Supreme Court to block drive for recreational marijuana

    Attorney General Ashley Moody is urging the Florida Supreme Court to reject a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow recreational use of marijuana by people 21 and older, arguing a ball…

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    Florida News @kbin.social activepeople @kbin.social
    jasongarcia.substack.com More than 1.5 million Florida renters are about to lose rights – unless Ron DeSantis does something very soon

    See the long list of local renter-protection laws likely to be dissolved if Ron DeSantis decides to let a controversial, landlord-backed bill go into effect.

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    Florida News @kbin.social activepeople @kbin.social
    www.cnbc.com DeSantis asks federal judge to dismiss Disney suit, claiming broad immunity

    Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis asked a federal court to dismiss Disney's lawsuit that alleges political retaliation against the company.

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    Florida News @kbin.social activepeople @kbin.social

    3 people have acquired malaria in the US. They’re the first in 20 years.

    www.vox.com 5 people have acquired malaria in the US. They’re the first in 20 years.

    The cases, identified in Florida and Texas, raise a lot of questions.

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    Workers at over 150 US Starbucks stores to strike over Pride decorations
  • if you ask generic customer what they feel about minor holiday X that retail stores make a huge deal about - if there aren't massive sales, most customers will be equally ambivalent.

    there's nothing really to be "on board" about, it's an ignorable decor change. They don't even have music or large amounts of candy like in the winter holidays.

  • Let's give kbin's ancestor Postmill some love

    gitlab.com Postmill / Postmill · GitLab

    Free, web-based, social link aggregator with voting and nested comments. https://postmill.xyz/

    Free, web-based, social link aggregator with voting and nested comments. https://postmill.xyz/

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    Can you trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations?
  • and the devs copy+pasting code from it probably are aware of that it doesn't know anything, and that it is likely synthesizing something based on StackOverflow, which they used to happily copy+paste from a few months ago.

    If the libraries ChatGPT suggests work ~80% of the time, this leaves an opportunity for someone to provide a "solution" the other 20%.

  • vulcan.io Can you trust ChatGPT’s package recommendations?

    ChatGPT can offer coding solutions, but its tendency for hallucination presents attackers with an opportunity. Here's what we learned.

    “\* People ask LLMs to write code

    LLMs recommend imports that don't actually exist Attackers work out what these imports' names are, and create & upload them with malicious payloads People using LLM-written code then auto-add malware themselves”

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